Games Workshop Pre-Order Preview: Warhammer 40,000: Leviathan arrives!
As expected, the 10th edition of Warhammer 40,000 goes on pre-sale this upcoming weekend. Warhammer 40,000: Leviathan will be available over two weeks and the box set will be available while supplies last. Games Workshop has promised they’ve made a “mind-boggling quantity.” Also being implemented for the launch is a queuing system and limited quantity available per customer.
The box contains 72 miniatures, Space Marines versus Tyranids.
The Space Marine forces consist of a Captain in Terminator Armour, a Librarian in Terminator Armour, a Primaris Lieutenant in Phobos Armour, an Apothecary Biologis, 5 Terminators, 5 Sternguard, a Ballistus Dreadnought, and 10 pyreblaster-toting Infernus Marines.
The Tyranids feature a Winged Tyranid Prime, Neurotyrant and its 2 Neuroloid lackeys, 3 Von Ryan’s Leapers, a Psychophage, a swarm of 20 Termagants two Ripper Swarms, 11 Neurogaunts, 5 Barbgaunts, and a Screamer-Killer.
Also included in the box is the core book which will be released after. That book contains the first narrative Crusade Expansion, background, miniature gallery, and more. There’s also a 66-card Chapter Approved Mission Card Deck, and Space Marines transfer sheet.
There are also pre-order bonuses.
- Games Workshop store – double-sided gaming board with a 30″ x 44″ playable area
- Warhammer store – a set of 36 acrylic tokens including six 40mm round ojective markers, 10 battleshock tokens, and 20 wound tokens in a tin sporting the Leviathan logo
- Independent store – 28 double-sided deployment zone markers
- Independent store – neoprene dice tray featuring a Terminator helmet lens reflecting a Tyranid
Talk to your local store about which they will receive.
From Black Library comes Leviathan by Darius Hinks. The people of the fortress world Regium are plagued by nightmares of ravenous creatures that Lieutenant Castamon of the Ultramarines 1st Company recognizes as the signs of an impending Tyranid invasion, though even he has no idea of the scale of the oncoming catastrophe. The tie-in novel for the new edition comes in multiple forms, like a limited edition, hardback, eBook, and audiobook.
Echoes of Eternity by Aaron Dembski-Bowden is coming out in paperback. Disaster has come to Terra – the walls have fallen and the defenders’ unity is broken. The Inner Palace lies in ruins. The Warmaster’s horde advances towards victory in the seventh book in the Siege of Terra series.